The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-05-08

arce as the action of a favorable jury.
1t would seem to be the duty of a COM
hitting magistrate to inquire as to the
probability of offenders being clients of
the Prosecuting Attorney, before rem
dering a decision. :.
1t became necessary to arrest two or
these men again for a similar otfense,
but the justice dismissed the case for
some reason. Thereupon Dickson d
Varian brought suit in the names OF
the parties against me for damages IN
the sum of 81 coo for false imprison-
ment. When the cases Wera set Tor
trial, and we were ready fer the de-
tense, Dickson Tor the plaintiffs had tue
cases dismissed. My intention was to
have introduced in the testimony the
d ings of Mckay and Varian, as l saw
plainly had no use tor the Grand jury
in anv matter wherein the Trinity Ia
charge were directly or indirectly inter
ested. Whether or not the dismissal
of these cases had anything to do with
my intentions, is for others to say, II
they will.
IT Is SURE THING,
that if ever had taken the stand IN
defense, it would have required some
clever "choking" to have prevented
these facts from coming out. l am
nevertheless, not ungrateful for the
| donation of the 81 900.
All the while, even from the very
onset, there had been much said about
compromises in the suits. One OF the
/ first incidents in the early history OF the
dispute was a proposition made by
Bamberger to buy my personal interest
so as to remove the cause OF contro-
versv. About January LIST, 1887, another
effort was made to compromise. and 1t
appears that consultation was had, by
parties in interest, the result OF which
| was that the sum of $S1 900 was named
as the amount of cash necessary to be
paid by US to settle the controversy
| between the Observation-Disclosures BAN
! berger arian party and ourselves.
Dickson and Varian of late came on
the scene as stockholders in the alleged
Morgan Mining Company" and in
case of the settlement talked of having
been made, they we're to be recognized
as owning about one, quarter of the sum
named. There are some slight and i'm
material
-...... VARIATIONS OF STATEMENT
regarding their exact interest in the
division, but certain it is, that from
mere counsel in the first place, they
have become practically the chief liti-
giants. All these items being taken. into
account with the fact, that neither their
clients nor themselves knew anything
about. the property in dispute, until
nearly. year afterl it had been
decided to me, and that no one
of the Groesbeck-Ba mberger Bynon-
Dickson VarIan party ever paid
dollar for anything to which
they lay claim, with the ex-
ception of the necessary expenditures
in working up the scheme, seemed to
me to be enough to warrant me in lay
ing the matter before the proper au-
thorities in Washington. 49,
Accordingly, toward the end of jan
uary last, started East, and in a few
days thereafter l presented the facts
informally to the creators of these all
powerful creatures who, in their own
estimation, rise so much above their
source that the Nation itself is but
mole-hill compared with their noun
tain of egotism. L was amused to see
the exact estimate Of the importance OF
the great and mighty ones, and how
completely their Individuality was lost
4
list of employees in the great payroll
of the Nation. 1t was hard at times to
prevent confusion between the names of
parties mentioned. frequently 1 had
to correct the mis-association of names
with offices. 1t would
HAVE PRODUCED PARALYSIS
upon some of our local kings and prin-
ces of the realm to have found it neces-
sary to refer to a list to ascertain who
they were.
- Before leaving this city, and during
last December, | had fully acquainted
the President with the matter-which
afterwards formally laid before the De-
partment of Justice, so that he was
personally aware of the main facts.
About the middle of February, the
Attorney : General deputized Hon.
1 David A. Fisher, Examiner of the De-
partment of Justice, to visit this city !,
and investigate the charges preferred
by me. Mr.. Fisher and myself travelled
4 togetger from Washington, and upon
reaching Salt Lake City, he commenced
his investigation. He had been here
but few days when he was savagely
attacked by the Tribune, and all the
stereotyped adjectives of the unprinci-
pied clique which operates the stops
and pedals of that discordant organ
were blurted out with dismal agony, in
the defense of men 8 -l.a-.
ABOUT WHOSE GUILT Oh INNOCENCE
the organists knew nothing, except Sc
far as they may have been directly
interested. During the Investigation, ]
g. had agreed to keep out of the news
papers, and when the foul and infamous
columnies of the filthy Tribune were
: hurled at me, / accepted them as g
/ matter uof course. To bolster up
the unqualified falsehoods of their OWL
manufacture, the Tribune clique used
| without authority, the names of Messrs
: Joseph r. Walker, R. G. Chambers snd
B. G. Raybould, and made them say
that the statements had given in con
: nectien with the investigation, were
false and slanderous, wholly wanting
3 in the slightest basis of truth; willfu
, and malicious falsehood throughout
:, the invention of either crank or mon
5 strous liar"
9 Of this. have to say that whatever
Mr. Chambers may have said, it has
e no weight ct all, as he knew, positively
o nothing about the matter, and was II
D M NOV (So for as 7 am aware) con.